DON'T LET OTHERS DISTRACT YOU- BEST MOTIVATION FOR STUDENTS 2021

this is what always happens when God is trying to do something in your life the enemy will always present another enemy that is not the real enemy to keep you distracted from fighting the one that you're called to defeat tonight i don't know where you're at on this journey and i don't know what life looks like for you right now

but i know this if you're ever going to be who god's called you to be it's going to require confidence and if you've lost it you got to find it and if you've misplaced it you got to get it back you have to set your face the people that need to be for you will be for you people that will celebrate you people that will cheer you on people that stick with you through thick and thin but too often we're trying to convince people to be our friend convince them to spend time with us but if someone doesn't see the gift that you are if they don't recognize your talents value your friendship do yourself a favor and move on no offense but they are not a part of your destiny you're not the nut you used to be but you're not the tree you're gonna be but until you learn how to appreciate where you are in the process you won't get the power to evolve to your ultimate destiny when you do discover a cause worth dying for and you do realize it's worth living for how many know it's worth giving for it's worth working for it's worth sacrificing for but what i've learned is is that if you don't have confidence you'll never walk out your cause.

you're so busy starving the sapling trying to get to the tree that you cancel out the potential of being a tree because you don't feed where you are you're in love with tomorrow but you're neglecting today until you are faithful over the few you cannot be ruler over the many so you need to take your eye off of the tree and water what you got now you're gonna get what you focus on what you focus on gets larger and larger in your life it grows it's like like if you look at what's wrong with your life you can actually get to the point where you just hate your life and you think that you've got the worst life ever when really somebody else might look at your life and they might actually wish they had your life because they're seeing the stuff that you quit looking at a long time ago because you're so busy looking at all the stuff you don't like you've forgotten what you do like you might marry somebody and you might get so focused on what you don't like that you forgot what you liked about them that caused you to want to marry them to start with go ahead and work on your level go ahead and master where you are and after a while without you even trying to do it where you started will turn into where you're going that's what destiny is pulling you into from the rehearsal to the recital once you have mastered it whether the recital is business marriage accounting firms real estate development family whatever your recital is once you have maximized it you get to sit with the masters so the key to your life is finding a vision that imposes discipline on you in essence vision is the source of discipline discipline is the root of leadership it actually is the the very nature that attracts people to you a disciplined person naturally begins to attract people because people admire discipline in other people that's why we go to see athletes perform we really admire their discipline that they put themselves through if you do the same thing as a person people will then begin to believe what you say your very life of discipline creates trust people trust a person who they perceive to be disciplined there's a lot of destruction going on in the world right now there's a lot of loss happening in the world right now and i've actually been through a lot of chaos and i've been through a lot of destruction and one thing that i've learned is i learned that i had to keep my emotions in check and that's the same thing i tell other people when they're going through trying times and that does not mean that you're not going to have emotions but by keeping your emotions in check i mean don't make decisions based on your emotions they're going to lead to a bad place don't let that happen instead if you feel yourself getting emotional take a step back detach look around think about the long-term implications of the decisions that you're making and make your decisions based on logic and based on reason and based on long-term outcomes the older we get the more we realize we're not going to be here forever life is flying by when you realize how fast time is going it should bring a sense of urgency a sense of focus your assignment has an expiration date your time on this earth is not unlimited don't go through life trying to please everyone if you try to keep every person happy the one person that won't be happy is you come out from under that debt be nice go the extra mile but don't be a people pleaser you have to understand why you're going through the period that's causing you to make you want to give up the devil has one mission is to rob you of your destiny if he can get you to give up you have been robbed of your destiny if he gets you to never follow your dream he robs you of your destiny you got to get focused man you got to understand that this hard time that you're going through everything you're going through is preparing you for what you ask god for every trial and tribulation you go through prepares you for the life god has for you and in order for you to say yes to some things you got to say no to a lot of other things where you end up depends upon which road you take where you end up in eternity will be determined by the road you take here on earth what you do while you are in this world will determine forever where you spend forever everything you ever thought you would not make it through you got past it now if you're currently going through something right now guess what you're going to get past that too it always works that way you always do everything that happens to you in your life whether it's a trauma whether it's a disease whether it's somebody treating you in a certain way there's a lesson in all of it no limit people understand the lesson in life and therefore celebrate the lessons see a lot of times we allow ourselves to be fed and to be programmed into being a freedom you watch the news and read the newsfeed you'll be scared to come out the house so what kinds of things what kinds of thoughts are you feeding your consciousness what kind of things are you putting in your mind that will enable you to either move forward or to justify why you're staying where you are some people won't understand you they'll get upset when you break out of the box someone told me joel you've forgotten where we've come from i thought i haven't forgotten i just didn't want to stay there don't get stuck in the past don't get stuck in tradition what if they don't accept me what if they don't approve me you don't need their approval the most high god has approved you the creator of the universe has already accepted you now you have to set your face this is your hour there is greatness in you god is calling you out of the ordinary out of what you're used to he has things in your future that are going to break barriers sure there will be people that find fault think that you're missing it that's okay nobody has ever done anything great without opposition without people thinking they were missing it keep your face set and when you get to that point in your life where you're not cursing the things that come your way and blaming the things that come your way and particularly blaming it on somebody else and you hear it all the time she hurt my feelings how's that possible how can anybody hurt your feelings your feelings come from your thoughts no one can hurt your feelings without your consent no one can embarrass you without your consent these are choices that you have that come from the way that you think i believe that the greatest thing in the world for you to discover is yourself what you're doing now is not all you were born to do your greatest enemy of your progress right now is your last success i'm afraid of success because success can stop you from progressing what you were born to do is so much bigger than what you're doing right now i don't care how great you think you are right now don't get stuck in that stuff you're awesome someone calls you a name hey stupid and you turn around i didn't even tell anybody i was coming how did they know that all right and then you blame the person who called you a name instead of saying that's just their opinion